Donatello was a forerunner of humanistic expression and worked towards creating a system of perspective Donatello produced sculptures in marble‚ bronze‚ terracotta and wood Donatello was one of the first Renaissance artists interested in the Classical art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome and became the first artist of the Renaissance to create a nude statue Donatello invented a technique known as schiacciato‚ or shallow relief‚ which achieved effects of spatial depth Donatello Art and Statuary
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into three distinct classes. At the top of the list‚ he places the guardians who have gold souls and who are considered the elites; below the guardians rest the auxiliaries who have silver souls; and below everyone else‚ lay the moneymakers who have bronze souls. The classifications that Socrates offers are reliant on everyone in the city doing the job or position that they are best suited to do in order for the city‚ as a whole‚ to prosper. According to Socrates and his
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balance. The sculptures were amazing and the architecture had to tell a story. In the classical period the statues in Greece became more natural. Instead of statues of gods there were statues of real people doing everyday things. The kouros statue‚ which means boy in Greek‚ was one of the earliest statues. It was from the archaic period. It had long stylized‚ detailed hair‚ and the statue was naked. The kouros was usually carved from marble. The female counterpart to the kouros was kore which
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and beauty. Kouros is a life-sized sculpture and hands clenched at the sides and one foot slightly forward. In contrast‚ Aphrodite is given larger than real-life scale. The Terracotta Statue of the Diadoumenos is a copy of a Greek bronze statue of 430 B.C. by Polykleitos. The pose of the famous statue of the Diadoumenos by Polykleitos is recognizable in this statuette‚ but the slender‚ graceful forms conform to Late Hellenistic period. Beginning with the early Classical period‚ Polykleitos
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Our society considers the work of Thomas Aquinas as early philosophy. However‚ his arguments and themes in one of his best known body of works‚ Summa Theologiae‚ draw heavily from that of former philosophical giants—ones such as Aristotle or Augustine. On that note‚ one of Augustine major accomplishments included defining mind-body dualism and materialism—an important distinction in philosophy. According to Augustine‚ Materialists believe that the mind exists as a part somewhere in the body; whereas
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two works of ancient art‚ the statue of Zeus and the statue of the Good Shepherd. Both statues are beautiful examples of the ideal image of their times. The first piece of art that I analyzed is the statue of Zeus. The larger than life bronze statue was created around 460BC that depicts the early religious beliefs in Gods. The statue of bronze differed from ones that came before it because it was not made of the normal marble that was used on most statues. The statue of Zeus couldn’t be made out
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your eyes would be your window to oversee your kingdom. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in Gallery 156 has a bronze sculpted Pair of Eyes within a glass case. (Fig 2). These eyes once belonged to an over life cult statue that holds the position
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of Political Thought Perhaps one of the most important political poems in the Russian language‚ Alexander Pushkin’s The Bronze Horseman‚ has been revered as both a literary masterpiece and manifesto for the modern Russian political landscape. In the realm of political science discipline‚ Pushkin emphasizes the relationship between the state (manifested in the equestrian statue of Peter the Great outside of Saint Petersburg) and the individual (Evgenii). The poem is a classic piece of Romantic era
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large-scale bronze nude statue of that time. David was a nude bronze statue that used the method of Contrapposto. Contrapposto was an art method that used one particular pose. This pose depicted the subject with their weight shifted to one leg‚ causing that leg to appear rigid with its knee locked‚ and their other foot flat on the ground with their hip thrust out a bit. By using bronze‚ the nudity‚ and the contrapposto pose‚ Donatello was able to put David in a Humanistic context. This statue shows David
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Donatello’s equestrian statue of Erasmo better known as the Gattamelata was built in 1453‚ during the middle of the Italian Renaissance. This statue stands 11 feet tall and was the first example of such a monument since ancient times. There were other statues of such scale in the 14th century but none that had been created in bronze and all were placed over tombs rather than erected to be a standalone piece. Donatello portrays Gattamelata sitting atop his horse staring off in the distance‚ his face
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